The PolMig team, from the left: Constantin Herburger, Franzisca Zanker, Sophia Stille, Edwin Mutyenyoka and Jamila Hamidu
| © ABIThe ABI welcomes three new staff members!
We warmly welcome Sophia Stille, Jamila Hamidu and Edwin Mutyenyoka as part of the team for the project The Political Lives of Migrants: Perspectives from Africa (PolMig).
Sophia Stille holds a Master's degree in Advanced Migration Studies from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She will start her PhD journey at the ABI as part of the PolMig project.
Edwin Mutyenyoka is completing his PhD at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück on the topic: “Assemblages of Formal and Informal Social Protection among Low-Income Immigrants during Crises: A Case Study of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Alexandra Park, South Africa”. Previously, he was a lecturer at the Department of Development Planning and Management at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He will work at the ABI as a postdoctoral researcher in the PolMig project.
Jamila Hamidu will join the team next month and is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow – on Climate displacement and diversification changing patterns of migration and Peri-Urban Settlement in Africa at the Max Planck Institute of Ethnic Diversity and Religious Studies in Göttingen, Germany.
The project is led by Franzisca Zanker and will run until 2029. It is funded by the European Research Council.